A comprehensive four-volume guide. Although the detailed annotations for individual fonds do not list opisi, each volume has an appended list of opisi with dates and compilers, as well as extensive indexes. The first volume describes documentation from the State Repository of Antiquities for Charters and Manuscripts, the central Muscovite prikazy, and collections from MGAMID and the State Archive of the Russian Empire (Gosarkhiv). Appendices include a helpful chart portraying the history of the archive and its prerevolutionary predecessors. The second volume covers high administrative records of the Russian Empire, predominantly from the eighteenth century, including imperial chanceries, the Senate, its departments and agencies, the Synod, other central government agencies such as the collegia and related chanceries, land-survey administrations, imperial court records, and government commissions. It also contains an extensive bibliography of documentary publications and reference literature (although regrettably lacking rubrics or annotations). The third volume describes records of local institutions of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries and monasteries. The fourth volume covers collections of manuscripts and early printed books, family and personal papers, and estate fonds.

The basic two-volume guide to TsGADA, now updated by b–60. The first volume describes fonds from the prerevolutionary MGAMID (after the publication of this guide, those fonds containing the eighteenth-century records of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs were split up, and the post-1720 records were transferred to AVPRI) and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century records from the Muscovite prikazy and the chancellery and departments under the Senate from MAMIu. The second volume describes records of the Department of Lands and Estates (also from MAMIu), holdings from the Land-Survey Archive, collections from monasteries and other religious institutions, and some private family papers.

An important journal devoted to early Russian history, includes articles, documentary publication, analyses of sources, and reviews of archive-related materials from the medieval (predominantly pre-19th c.) period. Although sponsored by and editorially based in RGADA, many of its contents relate to other archival holdings as well.

Finding Aids —
Specialized:

The present list includes only selected, major specialized finding aids. Emphasis is on those that are available in IDC microform editions (i.e. major pre-1976 imprints) and more recent specialized finding aids. Articles are generally not included, although many pre-1976 articles are also available on microfiche. See the most extensive listings of relevant published finding aids and documentary publications in b–60 (vol. 2), and a more comprehensive annotated list of major specialized literature (including articles) in PKG M&L (1972), pp. 161–67, and Sup. 1 (1976), pp. 38–49. An earlier bibliography of reference literature is presented in Begunov et al., Sprav-ukaz. (Moscow/Leningrad, 1963), pp. 162–80, with indications of the fond or manuscript collection to which the reference refers.
The collection of the most valuable documentary monuments of Russian history (f. 135. Drevlekhranilishche) available on the website of the archive: http://rgada.info/index4.php?T1=&Sk=1....
For materials related to the Russian Orthodox Church see Ist. RPTs (1995), pp. 21–84.

The present collection contains 104 items (books detailing income and expenditure, inventory lists, etc.) that furnish meticulous information on the workers' wages, and the amounts paid for equipment and other material in the period 1620–1700. Most of the documents from this unique archival collection, which is held in RGADA (fond 1182, opis' 1), are previously unpublished. In the near future, IDC will make available archival materials from the eighteenth century, as well as the priceless library of the Moscow Printing house, which contains books printed by such trailblazers as Ivan Fedorov, Andronik Nevezha, and Nikita Fofanov.
CONTACT: http://www.idc.nl/.

A detailed catalogue of the collection of materials dating from the period 1264–1775 from the so-called Tsar’s Archive of the Posol'skii prikaz, especially rich in early charters, legal documents, manuscripts books, and other treasures of medieval Russia. Previously described in an article by Chernov (in b–64). The inventory with 402 entries indicate provenance and references to published versions. Includes indexes of proper and geographical names.

A detailed list of the extremely rich collection of early Russian charters and other historical documents (14th–18th cc.) which formed part of the collection of the Collegium of Economy, housed before the Revolution in MAMIu, now fond 281 in RGADA. The introduction to the fourth volume contains an important but controversial diplomatic classification of the gramoty. Part of this collection was earlier described in the series Opisanie dokumentov i bumag, khraniashchikhsia v MAMIu (b–81), vol. 4, pt. 2, pp. 1–8, 1–150.

A scholarly catalogue of 886 register books from Muscovite prikazy, predominantly dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (1495–1718). The 3,046 documentary sections are listed under the appropriate prikaz, with cross references to published versions. Includes name and geographic indexes.

The first issue of a new scholarly inventory of the fond Prikaznye dela starykh let (Prikaz Files of Early Years) covers materials from the Posol'skii, Gorodov, and Razriadnyi prikazy, and the Prikaz Kazanskogo dvortsa, among others, dating from the years 1505–1613. The second volume covers 1614–1623. The third volume covers the years 1614–1626. All volumes include name and geographic indexes.

This large and important MAMIu series includes volumes describing and inventorying various sections of MAMIu along with historical monographs about the archive and based on some of its component sections. The first volume surveys the archive holdings. Records of the Razriadnyi prikaz are given the most extensive coverage, with inventories comprising parts of volumes 4 and 6-9, and volumes 10-20. Extended coverage is given to the records of the Pomestnyi prikaz in volumes 1, 2, and 5, and to those of the Sysknoi prikaz in volumes 2 and 4.

A scholarly study of the compilation and characteristics of the family genealogical registers of Moscovite boyar with an historiographic survey of earlier studies and problems of their use and interpretation as historical sources. A major part of the volume consists of a reconstruction of the complex of the genealogical registers (rodoslovnye rospisi) from the late seventeenth century, with listings alphabetically by family, which thus provides an index of existing registers. Includes detailed name indexes.

See the coverage of MGAMID in b–60, b–61, and b–64. See the MGAMID Sbornik, which includes additional descriptions and inventories (under AVPRI, c–46). See also the reconstruction of the 1614, 1626, and 1673 inventories of the Posol'skii prikaz, edited by S.O. Shmidt and V.I. Gal'tsov (1960–1990).

An historical source analysis of the entire corpus of 98 ambassadorial registers (posol'skie knigi) held in RGADA, with detailed scholarly references. Includes lists of Russian and foreign diplomats during the period.

These volumes, although technically not archival catalogues, provide detailed descriptions of the diplomatic records which up to the year 1720 are preserved in RGADA. They were originally prepared at the beginning of the nineteenth century by the then director of the MGAMID, but published a century later.

Copies of many of the eighteenth-century documents covered by these volumes exist in both RGADA and RGIA. The inventories coordinate the entries with the published ukazy in Polnoe sobranie zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii and include many which have not been published.

b-102. The “Lithuanian Metrica” in Moscow and Warsaw: Reconstructing the Archives of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Including an Annotated Edition of the 1887 Inventory compiled by Stanisław Ptaszycki. Edited by P.K. Grimsted and I. Sułkowska-Kurasiowa. Cambridge, MA, 1984. xvi, 73 p.; vii, 279 p.; A-109 p. (Lib: DLC; MH).Published by Oriental Partners for the “Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies.” A collaborative publication of Harvard University and Polish Academy of Sciences.

Includes an introductory history and analysis of the collection, containing records from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The facsimile edition of the 1887 Ptaszycki inventory (b–102.1) indicates the present archival locations of the holdings listed in Moscow (RGADA) and Warsaw (AGAD—Archiwum Główne Akt Dawnykh).

The publication of a nineteenth-century inventory prepared in St. Petersburg covering parts of the Lithuanian Metrica that were later transferred to MAMIu. See the augmented facsimile edition as part of b–102.

A publication of diplomatic register books from the Lithuanian Metrica. An appendix to the first volume prints a 1798 inventory of the register books of both the Crown Metrica prepared before they were removed to Russia. Most of those from the Lithuanian Metrica remain in RGADA, as do those from the Crown Metrica relating to Ukraine for the period 1569–1673.

A detailed critical analysis of the early volumes of the Lithuanian Metrica (to 1522), containing significant data about the history of the collection and about those parts remaining in RGADA. Charts at the end provide the table of contents and details about the organizational structure of pre-1522 volumes.

Sponsored by the Institute of Ukrainian Archeography (Kyiv), the Russian State Archive of Early Documents (RGADA, Moscow), the Main Archive of Early Documents (AGAD, Warsaw), the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. English version of the introduction by Grimsted is being published as a separate monograph by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
See the table of contents and abstract of the introduction: http://www.archives.gov.ua/Eng/NB/Met....

A detailed history of the records of the Land Survey Chancellery from the establishment of its archive in 1768 through the Revolution, with notes about finding aids and appraisal policies in different periods and references to earlier literature. Most of the records are now in RGADA (especially fonds 1294 and 1295).

The first volume provides a scholarly description of 41 early printed books, with additional descriptions of duplicates also held. Includes introductory essays by S.R. Dolgova on the collection of early Russian printed books (pp. 7–28), and by E.V. Luk'ianova on early printed books and the archive of the Moscow Printing Palace [Moskovskii pechatnyi dvor] (pp. 19–44), several scholarly appended indexes, and illustrations.

Detailed descriptions of a portion of the manuscript books from the library of the Moscow Synodal Press, which now form a special collection in RGADA (fond 381). The sixth volume, erroneously marked Chast' 2, is actually part of the first section covering manuscripts. The second section covers early printed foreign books (vol. 1: 1485–1538; vol. 2: 1539–1570).

A description of early parchment manuscripts from Pskov and Novgorod based on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century descriptions. Those manuscripts from the collection of the former Patriarchal Library are now in GIM.

Lists 139 Arabic-language manuscripts and 781 letters and other documents in the collections of several Orientalists from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Georg Jakob Keer, the Swedish philologist Jacob Jonas Bjernstol, and the Syrian Zhurzhi Ibrakhim Markus [G.A. Markos]), as well as other manuscripts and fragments in RGADA collections.

An item-by item catalogue of so-called Lamoignon Collection (fond 81), originally held as part of the Stroganov Collection, comprising the records of the French Secretary of State Jean Duthier, covering the period 1547–1560. Most of the collection were bought at auction in Paris in 1791 by P.A. Stroganov, and were transferred to state archival custody in 1929 as part of the Stroganov Collection. The catalogue includes descriptions of related part of the Duthier papers held by the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. A French-language index of authors is also included. See also the account of the origin of the collection by V.N. Malov, “Poiskhozhdennie kollektsii G. Lamuan'ona (TsGADA).” The catalogue references published versions of the documents described.